| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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Book Review

Indian Treaty-Making Policy in the United States and Canada, 1867–1877. By Jill St. Germain. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. xxiv, 243 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8032-4282-4.)

Writing comparative history is a challenging enterprise. Not only must one be cognizant of the topic and its many nuances for more than one historical tradition, but proper questions must be asked that tease out the distinctions and allow for a greater understanding of the subject. Jill St. Germain has attempted to compare the history of indigenous treaty making in Canada and the United States during a particularly important decade. By and large, she has succeeded in writing a worthwhile comparative history, although there are certain limitations. 1

This brief monograph (165 pages of text broken into ten chapters) begins with placing treaty making in Canada and the United States during the mid-nineteenth century into its historical context. For the United States, the time frame is a mere four years, as Congress in 1871 decided to end treaty making between the federal government and Indian nations. In the immediate years preceding this particularly odd legislation, numerous treaties were negotiated, and a variety of blue-ribbon panels investigated treaty making. Meanwhile, in Canada, the first of the "numbered treaties" were completed in the Canadian West. It was a relatively new experience for the Canadian government, as Britain had previously conducted these negotiations. . . .

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